{"id":8291,"date":"2024-01-27T18:29:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T18:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/?p=8291"},"modified":"2024-01-27T18:30:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T18:30:52","slug":"cold-rainy-weather-making-war-wracked-gaza-completely-uninhabitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/cold-rainy-weather-making-war-wracked-gaza-completely-uninhabitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold, rainy weather making war-wracked Gaza \u2018completely uninhabitable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Relentless Israeli attacks against infrastructure in Gaza and cold weather are making the Palestinian enclave \u201ccompletely uninhabitable\u201d, the United Nations human rights office (OHCHR) has warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI fear that many more civilians will die,\u201d Ajith Sunghay, the head of the OHCHR for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe continued attacks on specially protected facilities, such as hospitals, will kill civilians, and there will be a further, massive impact on access to health care, safety and security in general of Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunghay said his office was also \u201cvery worried about the impact of the rainy, cold weather\u201d which was \u201centirely predictable\u201d at this time of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the weather \u201crisks making an already unsanitary situation completely uninhabitable for the people. Most have no warm clothes or blankets\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been internally displaced by Israeli attacks, and many are crammed into overcrowded shelters where they are threatened by the worsening weather, diseases and an acute shortages of food, water and medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunghay said it would be \u201cdisastrous\u201d if the bombardment or the street-to-street fight taking place in Khan Younis moved further south to Rafah, where some 1.3 million people are now massed in the town bordering Egypt in an attempt to evade the Israeli assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Georgios Petropoulos, the director of the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs in Gaza, told Al Jazeera the months-long war has left 2.2 million people at risk of starvation in the Strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEveryone in Gaza needs aid now and the war must stop,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A displaced Palestinian woman stands at the entrance of a tent flooded by heavy rain in Gaza. [AFP]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Children spend their time in front of makeshift tents during the cold weather as Palestinians who fled their homes take shelter in the city of Rafah. [Abed Zagout\/Anadolu Agency]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A woman helps a man lay down on a bed in a makeshift camp where they took refuge after fleeing their homes. [Abed Zagout\/Anadolu Agency]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A view of a makeshift tent where Palestinians who left their homes to protect themselves from Israeli bombardment have taken refuge. [Abed Zagout\/Anadolu Agency]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Relentless Israeli attacks against infrastructure in Gaza and cold weather are making the Palestinian enclave \u201ccompletely uninhabitable\u201d, the United Nations human rights office (OHCHR) has warned. \u201cI fear that many more civilians will die,\u201d Ajith Sunghay, the head of the OHCHR for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said on Friday. \u201cThe continued attacks on specially protected …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[307,185,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-palestinian-affairs","category-172"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8294,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291\/revisions\/8294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ameforum.net\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}